White Oleander
2002
**½
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Cast: Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick Fugit, Robin Wright Penn
Alison Lohman gives a strong performance as a teenage girl whose overbearing mother seems to be in charge of her life even while serving a sentence for murder. The troubled girl goes from one foster home to another but she never has my fullest sympathy. Is she a victim or not? Does she have her own will or not? Adapted from Janet Fitch's novel.
